# Engineering Manager (Agent Engine) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $300K–485K
- Posted: 2026-10-31
- Skills: AI Research & Systems
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/3f0dc0ad-aa9a-4cd8-aa75-245112f3b2de

## Description

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer https://www.perplexity.ai/computer, the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users.

As the engineering manager supporting the Agent Engine team, you'll bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong leadership and collaboration skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You'll lead, grow, and support a team in solving many open problems in AI, including:

 - Designing frontier agent harnesses and systems to perform high-stakes, mission-critical work for our users;

 - Leveraging action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;

 - Providing consistently excellent experiences across local execution, headless cloud, custom executors, and other environments through sound system design and flexible abstractions;

 - Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;

 - Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;

 - and much, much more.


RESPONSIBILITIES

 - Provide technical leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.

 - Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI systems and related techno

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